Category Archives: Weightlifting

February 7, 2019 USADA announced today that Rachel Campbell, of Alto, N.M., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has received a four-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation due to her refusal to provide a urine sample. Campbell, 27, refused to provide a sample as requested by a doping control officer during an out-of-competition…

January 28, 2019 USADA announced today that Trevor Cuicchi, of Mesa, Ariz., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a nine-month sanction after testing positive for a prohibited substance from a contaminated dietary supplement. Cuicchi, 22, tested positive for ostarine as the result of an out‐of‐competition urine sample he provided on June 14,…

January 14, 2019 USADA announced today that Robert Brown, of Haslet, Texas, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a nine-month suspension for an anti-doping rule violation. Brown, 27, tested positive for heptaminol from an in-competition urine sample collected on September 16, 2018, at the American Open Series 3. Heptaminol is a Specified…

December 20, 2018 USADA announced today that Ryan Hudson, of Sisters, Oregon, an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a four-year sanction for his second anti-doping rule violation. Hudson, 39, tested positive for a long-term metabolite (4α‐chloro‐18‐nor‐17β‐hydroxymethyl-17α‐methyl‐5α-androst‐13‐en‐3α‐ol; DHCMT M3) of dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (DHCMT) as the result of an out-of-competition urine sample he provided on…

December 11, 2018 USADA announced today that Nicholas Saccente, of Springfield, Mass., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted an additional four-month sanction for violating his period of ineligibility. Saccente, 26, initially accepted a four-year period of ineligibility and loss of results in February 2017 after a sample he provided during an in-competition…

September 26, 2018 USADA announced today that Andrew Butterworth, of Indianapolis, Ind., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a 42-month sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. Butterworth, 28, tested positive for stanozolol and its metabolites, 3’‐hydroxystanozolol and 16β-hydroxystanozolol, as the result of an out‐of‐competition urine sample he provided on June 7, 2018.…

September 19, 2018 USADA announced today that Kevin Jones, of South Bend, Ind., has tested positive for a prohibited substance, which was determined to have been ingested by him without fault or negligence. Jones, 35, tested positive for trace amounts of clenbuterol as a result of a urine sample collected in-competition on March 4, 2018,…

September 17, 2018 USADA announced today that Cameron Dudeck, of Indianapolis, Ind., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has received a four-year sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. Dudeck, 25, tested positive for a long-term metabolite (4‐chloro‐18‐nor‐17β‐hydroxymethyl‐17α‐methyl‐5β‐androst‐13‐en‐3α‐ol (M3)) of dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (DHCMT) and related anabolic agents as the result of an out-of-competition urine sample he…

August 27, 2018 USADA announced today that Robert “Bert” Ortiz, of Brockport, N.Y., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has accepted a 16-month sanction for an anti-doping rule violation. Ortiz, 26, tested positive for 1,4‐dimethylpentylamine as the result of an in-competition urine sample he provided at the National Championships on May 25, 2018. 1,4‐dimethylpentylamine…

August 24, 2018 USADA announced today that Emily Malinowski, of Elmwood Park, Ill., an athlete in the sport of weightlifting, has tested positive for a prohibited substance and accepted a four-year sanction for her violation. This sanction was subsequently reduced by three-months at the discretion of USADA and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and in…